Leonard James Olivier, SVD (October 12, 1923 – November 19, 2014) was an African-American Catholic bishop.
In the last two years of that assignment, he also served as part-time Vicar for Black Catholics in the Diocese of Lafayette in Louisiana.
Two years later, on November 7, 1988, he was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Washington by Pope John Paul II.
Consecrated bishop on December 20, 1988, he served as Regional Bishop of Northeast, Southeast and East Northwest Deaneries of the District of Columbia, and Deaneries of North and Middle Prince George's Counties and, since 1995, the Deaneries of Northeast and Southeast of the District of Columbia, of Lower Prince George County, and Counties of Charles, Calvert, and St.
[2] He served as the Convener of the African American Catholic Bishops Subcommittee on Youth, the Ad Hoc Steering Committee for the National Strategy on Vocations, and the Task Force Group for American Adaptations to the Order of Christian Marriage, and the Liturgy Committee of USCC/NCCB.